Version: 0.8.0 (using KDE 4.7.3) OS: Linux When I visit the page http://attasi.com/labs/picsselz/ , rekonq's virtual memory consumption with only the one tab open is extremely high. Its virtual memory is at 1.6 GB whereas Firefox is only 0.6 GB rendering the same page. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Visit http://attasi.com/labs/picsselz/ in Rekonq and Firefox. Use ps alx or top or some other tool to explore memory usage. Actual Results: ~ % ps alx | grep attasi F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND 1 1000 12727 1 20 0 1648512 107432 - Rl pts/2 3:45 rekonq http://attasi.com/labs/picsselz/ 0 1000 12925 12691 20 0 587628 101556 - Rl pts/2 0:03 /usr/local/bin/firefox http://attasi.com/labs/picsselz/ Expected Results: Although the real physical memory according to System Activity is about the same, VSZ (virtual memory) is really high. If you limit this rekonq will crash. The first time I viewed this CSS animation, it crashed in in do_malloc<true> (size=<optimized out>) at wtf/FastMalloc.cpp:3635 because I set `ulimit -v 1536000`. So I filed crash bug 290579 via DrKonqi, which was marked a dupe of another FastMalloc crash bug 289261.
Version 0.8.0 in KDE 4.10.5 is using a much smaller amount of virtual memory on my machine. F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND 1 1000 16079 1 20 0 187768 68848 - Rl ? 6:00 /usr/bin/rekonq I am seeing some graphical glitches on that page but I think that's a different issue.
Development on Rekonq ceased four years ago, and it has been unmaintained since then. KDE recommends using Falkon instead.